 I'm not going to do what you all think I'm going to do, which is just freak out. That was a Jerry Maguire reference for all you young folk out there. What is up, everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul, where we talk about the problem, the focus on the solution. And if you're new to my channel, my channel is all about mental health, so I'm here to help you improve your mental and emotional well-being. So make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. So thought I'd hop on camera, those of you who saw my anxiety attack video I made the other day, you were like, huh, I wonder if Chris still has a job? Well, that answer, my friends, is no. And some of you are wondering, like, why is this guy in such a good mood if he just lost his job? Well, anyways, like, I don't want to get into too many specifics, maybe I'll make future videos about this or whatever, but anyways, like, I just actually celebrated my three-year anniversary with the company I work for. I work for a national company where we have drug and alcohol rehab centers all over the place. We special on dual diagnosis, which means that we treat people with mental illness as well as addictions. And I just celebrated three years. So I missed the email on Friday, came in this morning, and they're like, yo, we got to talk. And like, let me tell you first off, like, so one of the reasons I wasn't freaking out, like, I was totally prepared. I was totally prepared. I looked at everything, I'm like, I'm going to be fine. I'm going to be fine if I lose my job, whatever. So I go in there and it's like this new HR guy. He's like brand new. I've never even met this dude. It's his first time meeting me. I'm like, and you know what, let me pause for a second. This is what I mean by empathy. You know what I mean? Like back in the day, if I were to lose a job, I would see that other person is like this evil person like this guy doesn't even know me. He doesn't know me. Like I'm sitting there. I'm like, man, this sucks for this guy. He just started here and he's meeting me and he has to let me go. Like that sucks, you know? And like I told him that I'm like, dude, that sucks. And he's like, man, I'm just now meeting you and you have an excellent smile and stuff. I'm like, hey, man, it happens. And we sat there and talked. He's actually from a city not far from my hometown. And we talked a little bit about that. But basically what happened was they eliminated my position. You know, so I didn't get fired because I'm a terrible, terrible employee or anything like that. You know, companies got to do what companies got to do. And I've been training my replacement, if you will, but not technically a replacement. She's in a different kind of position, but I've been training her. And this is a woman where like I've known her for years. I respect the hell out of her. She just celebrated 14 years recovery. I love her to death. And I'm glad that she's taking over and doing that kind of thing. But anyways, yeah, they let me go and I won't get into specifics of this stuff, but I will say that when they let me go there, they did some things to help me out. So for example, I still have health benefits until the end of the month, which is cool. They could have just stopped them on the last day of my employment, if you will. They gave me, you know, my save time off and things like that. So like, don't be worried about me like I am financially good. And because I have an amazing girlfriend who is trying to get me to get my finances in order, like I have savings and things like that. And all of you, all of you people out there who have been supporting my channel, like even if you're not somebody who is part of the Patreon or if you haven't bought merch or whatever like that, like just watching my videos, like the little bit, the little tiny bit of YouTube ad money that comes in, like that is really helping me out. And that's helped me save up some money. And like, this is huge. Like, you know, I'm glad because part of the way I treat my anxiety is by putting up these kind of like safety measures. You know, I plan ahead and things like that. I'm actually going to make a video in the near future about why people with anxiety are awesome, kind of like I made a video about my people with depression are awesome. Anyways, because of my anxiety, I've created, you know, a bunch of different situations in my life to make sure that I'm OK. So I'm OK. My son's going to be OK. The YouTube channel is going to be OK. But let's let's cut to the chase. One of the reasons why I'm in such a good mood and wanted to make this video is like, man, like, I don't I don't know. I don't know. I don't want to get all spiritual on you and everything happens for a reason. But like, now I get to make more stuff for you. If you're watching this now, I have a buffer. I have time. I have time until I got to really look for full time employment, probably a month or two, OK, because of what I've saved up. And like now I can make more videos. Well, I can't really make more videos. I made a ton of videos. But some things that I've wanted to do. I just haven't had the time is I want to write more books. So those of you who don't know, I have two books that I have up on Amazon. One is about my story of overcoming addiction, depression and anxiety. The other one is for family members of addicts and alcoholics and how to help the addict or alcoholic while also keeping your mental health in good shape. So I have two books on Amazon, but I want to write more. I want to write some about depression and anxiety and meditation and the mental health stigma and all sorts of stuff. I also want to create some more courses on my website. Like there's so many things that I want to do. And now I have time to do them. So all of you beautiful people out there are going to get so many more things from me. And if you have ideas or comments that you want to leave down below, like of things that you want me to do, like a podcast, a podcast is something that I want to do just so many things. So if there's things that you think I can do to help you out more with your mental health or help other people, like make sure you leave comments down below. Let's brainstorm together. Let's do this thing because now I'm in the opportunity to have a month or two to really kick the rewired soul up like 50 notches and it's super cool. In about a month to I'm going to vid summit with my buddy Aaron. What a nice guy, my buddy Aaron. So go check him out. If you're into tech channels, go check out the channel. I'll link it in the description for the love of tech. He bought me a pass to go to vid summit in Southern California. I think it's in October, right? With a bunch of other creators and stuff like that. So I can learn and meet people, maybe set up some new collabs. I don't know. But anyways, he got me a freaking ticket for it. Like what an awesome guy. Like do me a favor, do me a favor, even if you're not into tech, go at the thank you from me to him. Go subscribe to his channel. He does a ton of tech videos. He also does a bunch of giveaways. So if you want to get like a free phone, I remember he gave like a free Nintendo switch. Like go subscribe over to Aaron for the love of tech. He did a collab with me a while ago on meditation. But anyways, like I said, I'm really excited that I have time to create more content in a bunch of different ways. Make sure you leave comments down below. Let me know how I can help you. I'm fine and I hope this video inspires some of you. Like you guys, things are gonna happen that are completely out of our control. Completely out of our control. And it's just how have we built up our mental resilience to prepare for the unknown for these things that'll happen that are just, we never know. You know what I mean? So I hope this inspires you. I hope it motivates you. I hope it gives you hope that no matter what happens, we can be okay, but it takes some work. All right? So I love all of you so much. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. And if you're new here again, my channel is all about mental health and I'm making so much new cool stuff. Make sure you subscribe and ring the notification bell. All right, and a huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon. You're all awesome. And if you want to get some Rewired Soul Merge, boom, click or tap on that shop link right there. All right, thanks so much for watching and I'll see you next time.